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Jan 1, 1991 · Historical events in January 1991. Learn about 109 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in Jan 1991 or search by date or keyword.
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Jan 12 US Congress gives George H. W. Bush authority to wage war against Iraq. 41st US President George H. W. Bush. Jan 13 Football fans of the Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates clash in Orkney, South Africa leading to a riot and 42 deaths in the Oppenheimer Stadium disaster.
January 16 – U.S. serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men. January 17 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins with airstrikes against Iraq. January 18 – Eastern Air Lines ceases operations after flying for two years under bankruptcy protection.
9th » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 12th » Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- Background of The Persian Gulf War
- Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait & Allied Response
- Gulf War Begins
- War on The Ground
- Who Won The Persian Gulf War?
- Aftermath of The Persian Gulf War
- Iraq War
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The long-running Iran-Iraq War had ended in a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in August 1988, but by mid-1990 the two nations had yet to begin negotiating a permanent peace treaty. When their foreign ministers met in Geneva that July, prospects for peace suddenly seemed bright, as it appeared that Iraqi leader Saddam Husseinwas prepared to dissol...
U.S. President George H.W. Bush immediately condemned the invasion, as did the governments of Britain and the Soviet Union. On August 3, the United Nations Security Council called for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait; three days later, King Fahd met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheneyto request U.S. military assistance. On August 8, the day on w...
On November 29, 1990, the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of “all necessary means” of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991. By January, the coalition forces prepared to face off against Iraq numbered some 750,000, including 540,000 U.S. personnel and smaller forces from Britain, France, Germany, the Sov...
By mid-February, the coalition forces had shifted the focus of their air attacks toward Iraqi ground forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq. A massive allied ground offensive, Operation Desert Sabre, was launched on February 24, with troops heading from northeastern Saudi Arabia into Kuwait and southern Iraq. Over the next four days, coalition forces e...
With Iraqi resistance nearing collapse, Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, ending the Persian Gulf War. According to the peace terms that Hussein subsequently accepted, Iraq would recognize Kuwait’s sovereignty and get rid of all its weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons). In all, an estimated 8,000 ...
Intended by coalition leaders to be a “limited” war fought at minimum cost, it would have lingering effects for years to come, both in the Persian Gulf region and around the world. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Hussein’s forces brutally suppressed uprisings by Kurds in the north of Iraq and Shi’ites in the south. The United States-led coal...
In 2002, the United States (now led by President George W. Bush, son of the former president) sponsored a new U.N. resolution calling for the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq; U.N. inspectors reentered Iraq that November. Amid differences between Security Council member states over how well Iraq had complied with those inspections, the United S...
The Gulf War, 1991. U.S. Department of State: Office of the Historian. The Gulf War. University of Virginia: Miller Center. Operation Desert Storm. U.S. Army Center of Military History.
Aug 31, 2024 · The allied coalition’s military offensive against Iraq began on January 16–17, 1991, with a massive U.S.-led air campaign that continued throughout the war.
January 1 – Czechoslovakia becomes the second Eastern European country to abandon its command economy. [6] January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, starting the 1991–92 South Ossetia War. [7]
